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If you liked Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Agatha Christie · 1920 · Hercule Poirot #1

    Because same series (Hercule Poirot #1); also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, detective, classics.

    Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.

  2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Agatha Christie · 1926 · Hercule Poirot #4

    Because same series (Hercule Poirot #4); also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, classics, detective.

    Retired Poirot probes a locked study murder in King's Abbot, told by the village doctor.

  3. Murder on the Orient Express

    Agatha Christie · 1934 · Hercule Poirot #10

    Because same series (Hercule Poirot #10); also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, classics, detective.

    Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.

  4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · Sherlock Holmes #3

    Because shares tags: classics, detective, mystery.

    Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.

  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery, detective.

    Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

  6. A Study in Scarlet

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887 · Sherlock Holmes #1

    Because shares tags: classics, mystery, detective.

    Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.

  7. And Then There Were None

    Agatha Christie · 1939

    Because also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, classics.

    And Then There Were None retold: ten to Soldier Island, rhyme deaths, no one left to tell.

  8. The Silkworm

    Robert Galbraith · 2014 · Cormoran Strike #2

    Because shares tags: mystery, detective.

    A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.

  9. The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco · 1980

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.

  10. The Green Mile

    Stephen King · 1996

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.

  11. Mr. Mercedes

    Stephen King · 2014 · Bill Hodges Trilogy #1

    Because shares tags: mystery, detective.

    Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.

  12. Kiss the Girls

    James Patterson · 1995 · Alex Cross #2

    Because shares tags: mystery, detective.

    Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.

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